NARRATIVE: A SMALL AND BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN ABOUT 1.5 MILESSOUTH TO SOUTHEAST OF NEW MIDDLETOWN IN HARRISON COUNTY INDIANAAROUND 7:27 PM EDT. THE INITIAL TOUCHDOWN POINT WAS IN THE 3900BLOCK OF ELIZABETH-NEW MIDDLETOWN ROAD. THE TORNADO DAMAGED A ROW OFTREES BEHIND A HOME AND REMOVED SOME FLASHING ON THE HOME. THETORNADO APPARENTLY LIFTED AND CROSSED ELIZABETH-NEW MIDDLETOWN ROADAND HEADED EAST INTO A WOODED AREA. THE TORNADO SNAPPED LARGE LIMBSFROM THE TREE CANOPY IN THIS AREA AND LIKELY WAS NOT IN TOTALCONTACT WITH THE GROUND. THE TORNADO LASTED FOR A MINUTE OR LESS.THE TREE DAMAGE IS CONSISTENT WITH EF-0 DAMAGE WITH ESTIMATED WINDSOF 70-75 MPH.

Tornado 2 (Jefferson County, KY):

...TORNADO CONFIRMED AROUND CHURCHILL DOWNS RACE TRACK IN JEFFERSONCOUNTY KENTUCKY ON THE EVENING OF JUNE 22 2011...

NARRATIVE: THE TORNADO WAS RATED AS AN EF-1 AT CHURCHILL DOWNS WITHESTIMATED WIND SPEEDS OF 100-105 MPH. FIVE BARNS AT THE RACE TRACKHAD LARGE SECTIONS OF THEIR ROOFS BLOWN OFF AND CINDER BLOCK WALLSBUCKLED OR COLLAPSED. CHRIST CHURCH ON CHURCHILL DOWNS HAD SOME ROOFAND SIDING DAMAGE. AS THE TORNADO MOVED EAST...IT STRENGTHENED TOEF-2 INTENSITY WITH ESTIMATED WIND SPEEDS OF 120 MPH NEAR THEINTERSECTION OF FLOYD STREET AND CENTRAL AVE. AT THIS LOCATION...ALARGE INDUSTRIAL BUILDING WAS HEAVILY DAMAGED. NUMEROUS TREES WEREUPROOTED AND SNAPPED ALONG THE PATH OF THE STORM. THE TORNADO LIFTEDNEAR THE INTERSECTION OF CRITTENDEN DRIVE AND CENTRAL AVE WHERE ASUPER 8 HOTEL HAD MINOR ROOF DAMAGE. THERE WAS NO DAMAGE OBSERVED ATPAPA JOHNS CARDINAL STADIUM.

Tornado 3 (Jefferson County, KY):

...TORNADO CONFIRMED WEST OF DOWNTOWN JEFFERSONTOWN IN JEFFERSON
COUNTY KENTUCKY ON THE EVENING OF JUNE 22 2011...

NARRATIVE: AT THE START OF THE PATH THE TORNADO WAS EF-0 STRENGTH AS
IT DAMAGED SHINGLES AND SIDING AND SNAPPED MAPLE TREES. AT ORCHARD
LAKE BOULEVARD AND FALLEN APPLE LANE TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN AND LAID
OUT IN NORTH...NORTHEAST...AND SOUTH DIRECTIONS. THE TORNADO MOVED
INTO THE HURSTBOURNE WOODS SUBDIVISION AND RIPPED A LOCKED POOL GATE
FREE AND THREW IT OVER A BUILDING AND 35 YARDS DOWNWIND. THIS
LOCATION SUFFERED THE WORST DAMAGE WITH GUTTERS...SIDING...AND
SOFFITS RIPPED FROM BUILDINGS AND DEPOSITED 30 YARDS AWAY IN TREES.
NEXT A LARGE OAK TREE WAS UPROOTED AT 3705 MODESTO ROAD AND A
TRAMPOLINE WAS THROWN INTO A VOLKSWAGEN AND THEN OVER A HOUSE. AT
9407 WILLOW WOOD WAY THERE WAS ROOF DAMAGE AND MANY TREES...BOTH
HARDWOOD AND SOFTWOOD...WERE SNAPPED AND UPROOTED. THE TORNADO
BRIEFLY MADE ABOUT A 25 DEGREE TURN TO THE NORTHEAST JUST BEFORE
DISSIPATING AND CAUSING SOME ROOF AND TREE DAMAGE AT ITS END POINT.

Tornado 4 (Jefferson County, KY):

...TORNADO CONFIRMED IN THE JEFFERSONTOWN AREA IN JEFFERSONCOUNTY KENTUCKY ON THE EVENING OF JUNE 22 2011...

NARRATIVE: THE TORNADO MOVED ALONG ST EDWARDS DRIVE WHERE THEREWAS ROOF DAMAGE TO ABOUT A DOZEN HOUSES ALONG WITH NUMEROUS TREESUPROOTED AND SNAPPED. DAMAGE WAS ALSO OBSERVED ON CHARLENE WAY ANDDELL ROAD. AT THE CORNER OF MAPLE AND GALENE ROAD...A LARGE SECTIONOF A LARGE OAK TREE SPLIT OFF AND WAS THRUSTED INTO A WALL OF THETULLY SCHOOL. THERE WAS ALSO STRUCTURAL DAMAGE AND ROOF DAMAGE ATTHE GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY NURSING HOME AT 3500 GOOD SAMARITAN WAY.AT THIS LOCATION...TWO VEHICLES IN THE PARKING LOT WERE THROWN ABOUT20 YARDS AND FLIPPED OVER...LOW-END EF-2 DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED HERE.THE STORM CONTINUED TO THE EAST AND APPARENTLY LIFTED OFF THE GROUNDAS THE GROUND DESCENDED INTO A SMALL VALLEY INCLUDING RUCKRIEGALPARKWAY. THE TORNADO AGAIN CAUSED DAMAGE ON ELECTRON DRIVE AT THEDILLIARDS WAREHOUSE AND MACHINERY SPECIALTIES WAREHOUSE. AT THESELOCATIONS...THE BRICK FRONT FACE OF EACH BUILDING WAS PUSHED OUT. ALARGE FENCE AROUND THE DILLIARDS WAREHOUSE WAS DAMAGED AND ASECURITY SHACK WAS THROWN AROUND 30 YARDS. THE TORNADO LIFTED ON THESOUTH SIDE OF ELECTRON DRIVE.

Tornado 5 (Jefferson County, KY): (UPDATED 1000 am EDT June 24):

...TORNADO CONFIRMED ON EAST SIDE OF JEFFERSONTOWN IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON JUNE 22 2011...

NARRATIVE: THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN ON THE NORTH SIDE OF ELECTRONDRIVE AT AMPERE DRIVE TO THE NORTHEAST OF WHERE ANOTHER TORNADODISSIPATED ON ELECTRON DRIVE. AN AIR HANDLER WAS BLOWN OFF THE ROOFOF JCK ENTERPRISES AND THROWN 100-125 YARDS. FARTHER EAST ONELECTRON DRIVE...SEVERAL CORPORATIONS/WAREHOUSES HAD STRUCTURALDAMAGE TO ROOFS AND THE SIDES OF BUILDINGS. THE MOST SIGNIFICANTDAMAGE WAS AT OXMOOR COLLISION CENTER WHERE THERE WAS STRUCTURALDAMAGE TO SOME STEEL FRAMING AND STUCCO. RBI CORPORATION (NEXT TOOXMOOR) ALSO HAD SOME STRUCTURAL DAMAGE. MORE THAN A DOZEN UPROOTEDAND SNAPPED TREES WERE OBSERVED AT AND AROUND THE TUCKER STATION BEDAND BREAKFAST AT 2406 TUCKER STATION ROAD. THE TORNADO...ROPE-LIKEIN APPEARANCE...LIFTED EAST OF TUCKER STATION ROAD BUT WEST OFINTERSTATE 265...AS NO DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED IN THIS AREA.

HOWEVER...THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN AGAIN AT 1600 SOUTH ENGLISHSTATION ROAD AND WAS AN EF-0. AT THIS LOCATION...DAMAGE INCLUDEDFIVE TREES DOWN INCLUDING A 60 FOOT SYCAMORE TREE...SHINGLE DAMAGETO A HOUSE...A DAMAGED SATELLITE DISH...AND A DESTROYED PERGOLA. THETORNADO DISSIPATED ABOUT 100 YARDS EAST OF THIS LOCATION.

Radar Data:

The images below show radar data from the NWS Doppler Radar during the evening of June 22, 2011. The top two images are "reflectivity" showing the supercell storm which produced a tornado at Churchill Downs race track. The tornado is located in the "hook" area on the southwest side of the supercell. Very heavy rain (but no damage) is observed in the main portion of the storm (red colors). The bottom two images are "storm-relative velocity" images. The identified red-green couplet is the location of the tornado as sampled by the radar.

The animation below shows Doppler radar storm-relative velocity data. A different supercell storm (from the one above) produced a cyclonic (counter-clockwise) circulation highlighted in the black circle (red-green couplet). This circulation was responsible for producing an EF-1 tornado in the Jeffersontown, KY area. This circulation did not produce a tornado along the entire length shown in the animation.